Moshe Wilensky was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. During World War I, his family…

… short by his draft into the Russian Army in 1916. In the years after World War I, Achron toured extensively as a … was granted the Mikhail Palace Prize. The following three years, he spent mostly in Berlin and gave concerts in … St. Petersburg “Society of Jewish Folk Music” founded three years earlier by Joel Engel, Solomon Rosowsky, Michail …

… most notably from George Gershwin. In those very early years, composers wrote “ethnic” songs for ethnic stage …

… and recite prayers in Portuguese without melodies. Over ten years later, the situation of these Judeus, as they call …

… their reels to the National Sound Archives, Israel, some years after she copied them onto cassettes. Tape and item …

… alike. The letters, which cover a period of almost seventy years, encompass a variety of topics that she discussed with …

… tonic, sub-dominant, and dominant of the scale. In recent years Guthrie's Hanukkah songs have received wider …

… himself to Kabbala and died at the age of 34 after several years of self-mortification and midnight prayers. My father, … within me the genuine Jewish piety. At the age of 12 years, I was sent to Lithuanian jeshivas, where I remained five years. During that period I acquired a knowledge of Jewish …